What does businessinsider.com track?
businessinsider.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.businessinsider.de/?r=US&IR=T once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 3
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- asadcdn.com33 requestsUnclassified
www.asadcdn.com
- benelph.de1 requestUnclassified
benelph.de
- Sourcepoint11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _sp_su | Unclassified | businessinsider.de | 12 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | businessinsider.de | 12 months |
The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.